For most of my professional career, I worked as a school resource officer to ensure the safety and security of schools. This experience provided me with the foundation to become a security assessment professional. In my role as a security assessor, I work with government agencies to evaluate...

Most of us understand our responsibility to protect our most valuable assets. We take steps to implement safety and security measures to protect our homes and vehicles. When we leave the house for the day, many of us lock our doors and windows without giving it a second thought to keep intruders...

As the end of summer nears, our children will return to school. Every day we will put our children on a bus or drop them off at the front door of their school and think, “Will the school keep my child safe?”

My job as a school security assessor enables me to evaluate school safety and security....

When it comes to school safety and security, it’s understandable that parents and their children can feel overwhelmed by the changes schools are making. Policies and procedures are constantly being updated, drills during the school day are becoming mandatory in more schools across the country, and...

One of the greatest pandemic-era challenges parents faced was how they would continue their child’s education. There is no question that COVID-19 transformed the landscape of K-12 schooling. Private school enrollment has reached its highest rate in a decade. This is due to people distrusting public...